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 Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have pleaded with Australian
journalists and photographers to back off while they
introduce their newborn daughter, Sunday Rose, to their
families.The celebrity couple were greeted by a media pack
when they flew into Sydney on a private plane last night.
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 Socialite Paris Hilton has made a spoof advertisement in
response to a jibe by US presidential hopeful John McCain.
A commercial suggested Mr McCain's Democratic rival, Barack
Obama, was no more than a lightweight celebrity, like Hilton
or Britney Spears.
But in a spoof recording placed on the comedy website Funny
or Die, Hilton referred to Mr McCain as "that wrinkly,
white-haired guy".
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 AN emergency helpline for celebrities and personal safety
zones around the stars have been suggested to stop paparazzi
hounding Hollywood stars, described as "crybabies" by one
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 The BBC has been fined £400,000 by media watchdog Ofcom for
misleading its audiences by "faking" phone-ins.
Viewers were urged to call some BBC programmes after
contestants had already been chosen.
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 PARIS (Reuters) - The private art collection of French
fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre
Berge has been put up for auction and will be sold in
February 2009, auction house Christie's said on Wednesday.
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 SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hollywood star Nicole Kidman and singer
husband Keith Urban asked the paparazzi on Thursday to leave
them and baby daughter Sunday Rose alone, saying she was a
"tiny doll" who would be scared by the attention.
"Keith and I are both appealing to the press and stuff just
to give us a little space so we can walk around Sydney and
show the baby our town," Kidman told Sydney radio station
2Day FM.
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 Batman film The Dark Knight has broken another box office
record after taking just 18 days to make more than $400
million (£204m) in North America.
That was less than half the time which previous
record-holder Shrek 2 needed to pass the milestone, having
taken 43 days to cross the $400m mark in 2004.
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 Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in "good spirits"
after surgery for injuries sustained in a serious car
accident near his Mississippi home. Mr Freeman's spokeswomen
said the surgery to reconnect nerves and repair damage to
his left arm and hand lasted four-and-a-half hours.
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 TOKYO (Reuters) - Christopher Nolan, director of the new
Batman sequel "The Dark Knight", said on Tuesday even he was
surprised at the film's box office success which has
shattered records in North American theatres.
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 Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine has died in Cairo
aged 82, four weeks after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
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